95 Brokers guide North Korean refugees only to the Chinese state borders with third countries but are not concerned at all with what happens after their border-crossing. Due to a lack of information and because they do not speak the languages of these third countries, North Korean refugee women arrive at immigration offices, refugee camps, or at border posts in these countries after experiencing all kinds of hardship. Having ‘embarked on the road prepared for death’, they experience, however, a more sinister situation in the camps than in the process of getting there. Life in the camps meant to be subjected to unprovoked violence and involved interferences even in matters of ‘physical excretions’. As the doors were locked after 10 o’clock pm and women had to urinate into the bin at night because they were not allowed to go to the toilet across the hallway, there were cases of women being beaten for cleaning up these excrements. They were also beaten for not understanding the language. Whereas, in Mongolia, women faced difficulties due to the humidity and cold, in Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, etc. they also got skin diseases during their stay in the camps due to the heat. The camps were built for fewer than 100 people but accommodated 300 to 400 persons, so that there was no space to move; it was only natural that North Korean refugee women developed skin diseases. They reported that due to these conditions they lived in the camps only wearing their underwear in order to cope with the heat. Although one could say that North Korean refugee women’s life in the camps was similar to that of other detainees, experiencing interferences with and infringements of basic life activities such as eating, wearing clothes and using the toilet did not only cause them shame but also resulted in the loss of their self-worth. The painful experience that women lived through in the camps reached its climax with the actions of acquiring and selling a place in the camp, as well as with waiting for a place. Although these places were so small that these women could not stretch out their arms and had to lie down with their bodies in a straight line, the first thing they had to do when arriving in the camps was to buy themselves a place. If one could not do so, one had to either stay in the toilets or wait standing on one leg until a place became available. Yi Chunhui (2009, 1-6) had to live in the toilets until she could get a place, and Jang Sukhui (2009, 2-2) explains that she had to wait in a standing position,